
Favourite Things: The Spirit
My favourite comic series ever… perhaps the most disappointing movie ever; badly botched because the filmaker didn’t understand comedy. :(
Favourite Things: The Spirit
My favourite comic series ever… perhaps the most disappointing movie ever; badly botched because the filmaker didn’t understand comedy. :(
The Savoy
“Puck on Pegasus” (circa 1896)
Favourite Things: reading murder mysteries in bed
Alan Foster (circa 1932)
Colliers cover art
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (circa 1872)
This is just one of many gorgeous covers that have adorned this gorgeous book of poetry over the years.
Western society’s narrative about that
(Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام, translit. Robāʿiāt-e ʿOmar Khayyām) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i (Persian: رباعی, translit. rubāʿī, derived from Arabic root rubāʿī (رباعي), “consisting of four, quadripartite, fourfold”) is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubayot, meaning “quatrains”.[1]
Wikipedia: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám